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  *逆* | 逆* | *逆
contrary / opposite / backwards / to go against / to oppose / to betray / to rebel
HSK 7-9
backwards / reverse direction
against the current / upstream
(literary) to be in defiance of the natural order / (coll.) extraordinary; incredible
to go against the wind / contrary wind / a headwind
to go the wrong way / to go against one-way traffic regulation
adversity / predicament
to turn back / to reverse
to counterattack; to strike back / (neologism c. 2008) (of an underdog) to go on the offensive; to make an improbable comeback
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
adverse trade balance / trade deficit
rebellious behavior / opposite / ob-
backlighting (lighting design)
to go against the trend
to sail against the current / (fig.) to go against the flow
unfilial son
inverse order
guest-house / inn
lit. navigating a boat against the current (idiom) / fig. in a tough environment (one needs to work hard)
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it / to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
traitor's property / breech delivery
to foresee / to predict
unfavorable / undesired
rebellious minister
(of an engine) to backfire
renegade / traitor and bandit
reverse transcription virus / retrovirus
reverse transcriptase
converse theorem (math.)
inverse map (math.)
reverse psychology
(psychology) adversity quotient (abbr. for 逆境商數|逆境商数)
oxymoron
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
unnatural relationship (parricide, incest etc) / unfilial conduct / against social morals
reverse reaction / counterreaction / inverse response
inverted turn (ornament in music)
invaders (insulting term) / foreign aggressors
orca; killer whale (Orcinus orca)
(geology) anaclinal
reverse fault (geology) / compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees
anticlockwise / counterclockwise
to go back to the source
reverse osmosis
to seem to grow younger / to regain one's youthful looks
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
reversing (e.g. electric current)
bad luck / unlucky fate
inverse operation / inverse calculation
anti-aging


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